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Insight perspective Mismanaging software licensing can lead to extra costs and damaged reputations. Here's how to ensure it doesn't happen to you.

Sunday, October 19 2008 08:11 PM

Tags: Software licensing, Piracy, Business applications, Personal applications, Organization, Tool, software license, Quocirca, software company, compliance

10 steps to network compliance

Insight Network compliance may seem like a chore, but it is a chore that will help companies know their IT structure more intimately, as well as better deploy and upgrade its IT systems.

Thursday, June 17 2004 06:44 PM

Tags: Operations

Insight Conventional belief holds that leasing saves money in the long run. But in the case of storage-based software, organizations doing so could end up paying twice the cost of purchase, according to Meta Group's Rob Schafer.

Thursday, September 16 2004 10:30 AM

Tags: Cost control, Business applications, Storage software

Oracle posts lower profits, revenue up 6 percent

News Oracle's support and maintenance business, and software sales give the company a revenue boost in its fiscal second quarter.

Friday, December 19 2008 11:14 AM

Tags: Business applications, Business plans, Sales/revenue, Revenue recognition, Software Sale, non-GAAP, software license, Sales, software license revenue, software

The Microsoft 'black screen' of software legitimacy

Blogs Microsoft has come up with a new way of handling software piracy. Using its Windows Genuine Advantage tool, when a non-a...

Monday, November 03 2008 11:49 AM

Oracle bucks economic trends; beats Q4 estimates

News Company earns US$2.3 billion on sales of US$6.9 billion, a 5 percent revenue drop, but still enough to beat Wall Street's estimates.

Wednesday, June 24 2009 10:31 AM

Tags: Financial, Software, software license, Sales, earnings per share, software license revenue, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software, Wall Street, net income

Oracle sees solid growth for its fourth quarter

News Enterprise software maker reports revenue of US$7.24 billion, boosted by a strong performance in software licensing.

Thursday, June 26 2008 09:50 PM

Tags: Earning reports/forecasts, Business applications, Compensation, software license, software company, software, BEA Systems Inc., net income, Oracle Corp., revenue

Microsoft repackages its software licenses

News Company announces two ways for small and midsize business to pay for application and server software usage, which aims to save customers up to 40 percent.

Friday, July 17 2009 10:32 AM

Tags: Software licensing, Software, New Orleans, software license, Environment, Server, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, IT Governance, IT investment

Oracle's Q1: 'We grew faster than SAP'

News Oracle misses analysts' earnings and revenue estimates for the first quarter, but pointed to worldwide growth in its applications business that surpassed competitor SAP.

Thursday, September 17 2009 10:42 AM

Tags: Software-as-a-service (SaaS), SAP AG, Sun Microsystems Inc., Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Earnings, data warehouse, Wall Street, Oracle Corp., analyst, acquisition